A database of European (EU and EEA) alternatives to the cloud services and SaaS essentials that mostly come from more well-known American companies. By Constantin Graf, a software developer in Vienna.
(Via Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com))
Noted by Damian Cugley .People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities — Until They Live in One (Wired).
(Via https://kottke.org/24/04/0044232-people-hate-the-idea-of)
Noted by Damian Cugley .Someone’s created a guessing game where you’re told whether your guess is alphabetically before or after the answer. Feels like a binary chop should be the way to go, but thinking of words equidistant between two other words is more confusing than doing the same thing with numbers …
(Via https://kottke.org/24/09/0045344-fun-little-word-game-alph)
Noted by Damian Cugley .New blog post by me:
I was one of the guest observers at the election count on the evening of
4 July 2024 and it was interesting seeing the process in action in detail.
Wisdom Kaye, a model, director, stylist, photographer, videographer, and all-around social media personality, takes on the challenge of styling himself as different typefaces. Papyrus has never looked so cool.
There are eight different flavours of UUID and here is a short post on when you might use some of them. I like using v5 UUIDs for things that have a natural unique identifier (in some scope) but some protocol requires the entities to also have a UUID.
I’m at the town hall as one of the people observing the counting of the vote. Dozens of people carefully counting, recounting and stacking pieces of paper.
I voted in the city elections this morning before work. This is the first time I have voted under the new voter-suppression-lite regulations, so I had to show my Australian passport before voting. No crowds at all this time of day, so the extra ID faff was not an issue.
pi40 Keyboard Kit: A 40% Planck-style keyboard kit with mostly through-hole soldered parts and a Raspberry Pi as its controller.
The idea of a through-hole kit is that you can solder on all the parts yourself—even the diodes and microcontroller—and it shows this off by having the diodes arranged under a window in a pretty pattern. Looks like the microcontroller board itself requires some trickier soldering since it has pads rather than pins.